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is he to whom our debt is unpayable. It is higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea.

No one can ever fully repay the debt. It is, as one Japanese phrase puts it, higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea' (David Plath after 76)

is the symbol of the Japanese people, the center of their religious lives. He is a super-religious object.

The Emperor was to them, however, inseparable from Japan. 'A Japan without the Emperor is not Japan.' 'Japan without the Emperor cannot be imagined.' 'The Japanese Emperor is the symbol of the Japanese people, the center of their religious lives. He is a super-religious object.' Nor would he be blamed for the defeat if Japan lost the war. 'The people did not consider the Emperor responsible for the war.' 'In the event of defeat the Cabinet and the military leaders would take the blame, not the Emperor.' 'Even if Japan lost the war ten out of ten Japanese would still revere the Emperor.'

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